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Patented Nov. 6, 1951 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE ROTARY FIRE-BOWL BARBECUE STOVE Jack Saltzberg, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application April 22, 1949, Serial No. 88,959

'Ihis invention is a barbecue stove. f

It is the general purpose of this invention to provide a portable, unitary barbecue stove which is efliciently useful as grill, a rotisserie, a smoker, a brazier, a camp stove or a room heater, and for other potential adaptations.

An intent of the invention is to provide a Substantial, low cost, light weight, and compact barbecue stove which can be, by one hand, picked up and transferred from place to place for instant preparation for any one of a great number of kinds of cooking uses. Also, the invention provides a portable barbecue which can be stored in small recesses in a house or a cabin or small camp site, and, especially can be packed in a vehicle for road travel, or in a small boat of the pleasure type.

A feature is the provision of a handy carryabout barbecue which is very stable; that is, is not easily tipped over, and therefore reduces iire hazard.

A purpose is to provide an all metal barbecue incorporating a good sized bowl in which lump fuel is used and which is so mounted on a basal pedestal that it, the bowl, can be readily rotated on a horizontal axis to enable the use of divers methods of food cooking on the barbecue. Further, provision is made for the use of the bowl in an inverted position as a part of a handle whereby the barbecue can be picked up and carried as a unit.

A distinctive feature of the invention resides in means for so supporting the applicable spit that it is made possible to better orient the food body to be cooked to secure a more even and quicker cooking of a large food body which may 6 Claims. (Ol. 99--421) be of a generally tapering form; such as a turkey.

The intent is to present the side of the rotating body, which is toward the fire, along a line constantly parallel to the fire grate of the stove.

The invention resides in certain advancements in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and has with above additional objects and ad-V vantages as hereinafter developed, and Whose constructions, combinations and details of means, and the manner of operation will be made manifest in the following description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations, adaptations and equivalents may be resorted to within the scope, spirit and principles of' the invention as it is claimed in conclusion hereof.

Figure l is a perspective of the stove with the fire bowl in horizontal position for broiling. Figure 2 is a perspective of the bowl adjusted to a vertical face position for grilling of a food body. Figure 3 is a perspective of the stove with the bowl inverted so that a hand grip on its bottom can be clasped in one hand for ready carriage 0f the stove when handling is necessary.

The supporting structure includes a basal ring 2 having a vertical flange 3 at theopposite sides of which are rigidly aiiiXed posts 4 having bearing bosses 5 one of which is shown in Fig. l as having a series of key holes 5 to receive a locking key 1. The base ring has afiixed thereto a pair of inverted hooks 8 for the purpose of interengaging with the rim of a removable grease pan 9; the function of the hooks being to prevent accidental overtipping of the pan.

A fuel holding bowl It has diametrically opposite, rigid trunnions Il rotatively mounted in the bosses 5 and it can be safely locked in any of several positions by means of the key 1, Fig. 1. The bottom of the bowl has a fixed hand grip member I2 to facilitate hand carrying of the stove unit as in Fig. 3 wherein there is shown a set screw I3 which, also, may be used to fasten the adjusted bowl.

Suitably fixed on the outer ends of the trunnions II are respective stiff arms lll parallel to each other and projecting outwardly from the rim plane of the bowl. A noticeable feature of the barbecue is that it involves a means for a variety of angular position adjustments of an applied spit I5 with respect to the rim plane of the bowl and as to a fuel holding grate section I6 which is removably lodged on rigid lugs l1 provided therefor at suitable locations on the edge of the bowl rim; Fig. 2. The great section is of semicircular form and a pair of them is shown in Fig. 1 for use on the bowl for grill and other cooking purposes, and for this use the grate sections have rigidly attached hooks IS to rest on the rim of the bowl.

Each arm I4 has thereon a freely slidable tube I9 which can be set at desired position along the arm as by a set screw 2B, and each sleeve has a rigid keeper hook 2l to receive a desired spit.

As seen in Fig. 2 the spit can be obliquely hung by the adjusted slides on the said arms so that that side of the food body near-est to the grate section will lie generally parallel thereto. The spit may be rotated by hand or in any other manner as desired so that the entire surface will be repeatedly presented to the fire in the bowl for a desired period of time.

What is claimed is:

1. A portable barbecue stove including, in combination, a spit, a pedestal structure and a fire bowl longitudinally, transversely, pivotally mounted on said structure for rotation about the pivot axis for different cooking positions of the bowl, and. a pair of frontal arms xed rigidly to opposite sides of said bowl and having spit sup- 5 porting members.

2. The stove of claim 1; said members being slidable along their arms whereby to Vary the cooking angle of the spit as to the bowl.

3. A barbecue stove having, in combination, a spit, a basal structure and a fire bowl having side, transverse trunnions pivotally mounted on said structure for rotation of the bowl about a horizontal axis to several utility positions over said structure, and a pair of parallel arms rigid with the said bowl trunnions and projecting forwardly therefrom and having slidable spit carrying members enabling adjustment of an applied Spit to present a tapered meat body with one side parallel to the lire.

4. The stove of claim 3; said structure consisting of a portable stand and the external bottom face of the bowl having a centrally aflixed hand grip.

5. The stove of claim 3; said structure consisting of a pedestal including a pan rest and a set of anchors ailxed thereto for holding a pan positioned on said rest.

6. A barbecue stove including, in combination, a spit, a pedestal having a pair of spaced uprights having fixed bearing bosses at their top ends, a re bowl arranged between the said bosses and having radial trunnions turnably mounted in the bosses, means to fasten the bowl in a selected rotational position in the bosses, and having parallel arms xed to said trunnions and spit supporting members adjustable along said arms for holding a spit at Various angles to the face of the fire bowl.

JACK SALTZBERG.

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